A recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Kurdistan to find her mother's village, likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide. On her journey she meets two American film students who are traveling to remote villages screening Charlie Chaplin films. They decide to help her search, an undertaking that brings them to the war-weary Mount Qandil, dubbed by the locals the Kurdish Bermuda...

A man and a woman who are on the run barricade themselves inside a secluded villa with curtained windows and eye each other suspiciously. They seem to be prisoners in the house, but perhaps could be figments of the imagination of a filmmaker who is no longer allowed to work. When the director enters the scene, the curtains are pulled open and reality only to be replaced by fiction again and again...